Letter To Bill....
Watercolour Painting Island - Patterson Bay, Muskoka, ON Hi Bill It’s a bit of a blah day up this way, and I don’t seem to want to leave the computer. I was thinking about your poetry, and a sketchbook idea, a means to keep track of your poems as the years pass. Sometimes, when an idea strikes me in the middle of sketching, I'll combine my sketchbook with the poem, or a comment…. We were staying at Phil's and Theresa’s cottage up at Tyson Lake. I got up really early, when it was still dark outside, and made myself a cup of coffee, and went out and sat at the picnic table. I listened and watched as the sun came up, and feeling inspired wrote in my sketchbook….adding a small watercolour. I still remember that morning. I remember Phil and Theresa. Wonderful people. Now passed. In this instance I was sitting making a small watercolour of Wolf Creek that flows into Tyson Lake. A gull swam up to where I was sitting, looking ...
